[X2Go-Dev] Removal of EsounD support

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Wed Jun 13 19:29:39 CEST 2012


On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:27 +0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm thinking about removing ESD support from x2goclient altogether.
> 
> During my recent deep changes to the PulseAudio integration for X2goclient on
> both Windows and Mac OS X, I came across the ESD sound support. On Windows, ESD
> was supported through the PulseAudio wrapper, while OS X was totally broken anyway.
> 
> Testing ESD support proves to be difficult, and I'm thinking about removing it
> completely.
> 
> Most Linux distributions have already removed esd (and tools) from their repo,
> or rather replaced it by the PulseAudio esd compat layer. That's especially true
> for Ubuntu, but also Debian Testing and Unstable (Debian Stable still has esd
> for x86 and amd64 arches, but this will be dropped in favor of PulseAudio in the
> upcoming release.)
> 
> That said, I'd like to know whether users are still using esd or not. I wouldn't
> feel comfortable removing a feature still in use. Please report, if you find the
> time.
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Removing it is fine by me - John




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